Milburn
Price is Dean of the School
of Performing Arts at Samford University in Birmingham,
Alabama, where he also conducts the Samford A Cappella
Choir and the University Orchestra and teaches conducting,
voice, and church music courses. A native of Mississippi,
he holds the B.M. degree from the University of Mississippi,
the M.M. degree from Baylor University, and the D.M.A.
degree from the University of Southern California. Prior
to moving to Samford in August, 1993, he served as Dean
of the School of Church Music at the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky for twelve
years. He was also Chair of the Music Department at Furman
University from 1972-1981.
Dr.
Price served as National President of the American Choral
Directors Association from 1999-2001. Guest conducting and
lecturing engagements have taken him to twenty-four states,
as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, Hong
Kong, Scotland, Switzerland, and Russia.
Dr.
Price has served as part-time Minister of Music for Baptist
churches in Mississippi, Texas, California, South Carolina,
and Kentucky, and served in a similar role at Vestavia Hills
Baptist Church in Birmingham from 1994-2003. He has written
text and music for several hymns, some of which have been
included in the 1975 and 1991 editions of Baptist Hymnal and
in The Worshiping Church (1990). His choral compositions
and arrangements have been published by Oxford University
Press, Hinshaw Music, Genevox, Harold Flammer, Carl Fischer,
Hope Publishing Company, MorningStar, Coronet Press, and
Alliance Music Publications. He has been the recipient of
an annual ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers) Award each year since 1980.
Dr.
Price is co-author of The Dialogue of Worship, written
in collaboration with Gary Furr and published in 1998 by
Smyth and Helwys. He is also co-author of A Survey of
Christian Hymnody, published by Hope Publishing Company
and now in its fourth edition. Additionally, he has contributed
articles related to worship and church music to The Hymn, Review
and Expositor, The Choral Journal, and Creator magazine
and was a contributing author to Handbook to the Baptist
Hymnal.
He
is married to the former Barbara Stevens of Jackson, Mississippi,
and they have one son, Steven, a daughter-in-law, Catherine,
a granddaughter, Shelby, and a grandson, Sidney.
Choral
music by Milburn Price
